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Monday, June 20, 2011

3:13 AM -

Interesting Facts

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
The United States uses an estimated 10 million tons of salt each year to melt ice on the roads.
For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the Earth.
Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.
There are over 20 million observable meteors per day
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter.
The human brain is composed of 75% water.
A piece of a neutron star the size of a pin point would way 1 million tons.
The risk of a falling meteorite striking a human occurs once every 9,300 years.